Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the beginning of the war, Britain's soldiers have doggedly caroled two onetime U.S. favorites, the Beer Barrel Polka and South of the Border. But lately a British song from World War I, Bless 'Em All, has been dusted off, is sung with a will by Britons of all classes. In waltz time, it goes...
...Percy is a stickler for good form. He has the reputation of being Britain's best-dressed Admiral. When not in uniform he looks like a Lawrence Fellowes in stiff collar, polka-dot tie, black Derby hat. In uniform he is splendid. In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer...
...organization called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian exiles. Among the conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...
...Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer Barrel Polka. Pardon me while I run down to Scollay Square and yell "I Am an American," just as loud...
...room clerk at the Willard Hotel looked up. Frowning down on him was a giant of a man clad in a sheepskin coat, faded polka-dot shirt, blue denim overalls, high laced boots, and a tired tan hat. The man asked for a room. The clerk coughed politely and said they were full up. The old mari turned away. "I been saving a year for this trip," he said, "and I did kinda want to stay where 'H. A. W.'* put up." Washington soon found out why Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo...